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punition en · NOUN

From Latin punitio: compare French punition. See punish.

(countable, obsolete, uncountable) punishment
- The corrections of the scholars consist of penitences and punitions; the former are, keeping a boy standing, or on his knees, or in an ignominious place; the latter are pensums (i. e. impositions), or, rarely, the use of a leather thong on the hand. 1845, The English Review, volume 4, page 145:
- Yee judges vpon earth, let our iuste punitions Teach you to shake off bribes, and kepe your handes pure. 1559, “Tresilian”, in George Ferrers, editor, The Mirror for Magistrates:

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